The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Northern Conquest - Brossura

Loud, Graham

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0582045290 ISBN 13: 9780582045293

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2000

Riassunto

Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians.

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Recensione:

"Graham Loud has provided a much-needed overview of the Norman conquest of southern Italy that will serve as the fertile ground for many future studies."Louis I Hamilton, Villanova University "This is the best kind of textbook...[its] strength...is its mastery of the sources, both narrative and documentary."English History Review 'a valuable resource...[t]he author has an excellent eye for detail and offers a solid and exhaustive political narrative based almost solely on primary sources.' Speculum

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This book is a wide ranging and engaging account of the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily by the Normans during the eleventh century. The central figure in this conquest was Robert 'Guiscard' (the cunning), son of a minor landowner from western Normandy who, as Duke of Apulia, became the dominant ruler of southern Italy, and was a key figure in the European politics of the time.

While examining the process by which the conquest took place, Guiscard's role within it, and his turbulent role in the south, this work places the Norman takeover in context. It examines both the historical evolution of southern Italy before the Normans, which made the conquest possible, and the hybrid society which that conquest created. The relations of the Normans with their nominal overlord the papacy, and Guiscard's attempt to conquer the Byzantine Empire are also discussed in depth.

Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0582045290
• ISBN 13: 9780582045293
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 341